Riverfront Downtown Urban Renewal Area

​Since its establishment in 1975, Riverfront-Downtown Urban Renewal Area (URA) funds have been used to attract and retain commercial businesses in the downtown core, preserve historic buildings, and incent new housing development within the Riverfront-Downtown Urban Renewal boundaries.

Riverfront-Downtown Urban Renewal investments play a major role in making downtown Salem livable, using urban renewal as a tool to focus public resources on key projects such as:

Parking garages/skybridges

Waterline infrastructure

Salem Convention Center

Riverfront Park improvements

Historic building preservation

A strategic action plan unique to the Riverfront-Downtown URA informs implementation of projects, using an integrated approach to revitalization that includes commercial, retail, mixed-use residential, streets and parks, re-development.

Assessed values and key projects were determined when the urban renewal district was first established. Project plans are subject to change at the direction of the Urban Renewal Agency.